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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Pietro_MascagniPietro Mascagni - Wikipedia

    Pietro Mascagni [a] (7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music. While it was often held that Mascagni, like Ruggero ...

    • Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni, 7 December 1863, Livorno, Italy
    • Composer
    • 2 August 1945 (aged 81), Rome, Italy

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  3. www.britannica.com › biography › Pietro-MascagniPietro Mascagni | Opera, Symphonies, Cavalleria Rusticana

    Mar 26, 2024 · Pietro Mascagni (born December 7, 1863, Livorno, Kingdom of Italy—died August 2, 1945, Rome, Italy) was an Italian operatic composer, one of the principal exponents of verismo, a style of opera writing marked by melodramatic, often violent plots with characters drawn from everyday life. Mascagni studied at the conservatory at Milan, but ...

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  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Cavalleria_rusticanaCavalleria rusticana - Wikipedia

    Cavalleria rusticana ( pronounced [kavalleˈriːa rustiˈkaːna]; Italian for 'Rustic Chivalry ') is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 short story of the same name and subsequent play by Giovanni Verga. Considered one of the classic verismo operas ...

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  6. opera-world.net › opera_composers › pietro-mascagniPietro Mascagni | Opera World

    Pietro Mascagni (7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music.

  7. cso.org › experience › articlePietro Mascagni, a man of many passions | Chicago Symphony ...

    Aug 17, 2022 · Pietro Mascagni, a pioneer of verismo opera, and a man of many passions. Though Dec. 7 remains the date that “will live in infamy,” it also marks the birth of one of operas most influential composers, Pietro Mascagni. Born on St. Ambrose Day in 1863, in Tuscany, Mascagni went on to write 15 operas, from L’amico Fritz (1891) to Nerone (1935).

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    • Pietro Mascagni | Opera, Symphonies, Cavalleria Rusticana | Britannica
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    • Remembering Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) | IAML
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    • BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945), Pietro ...

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  9. www.classicfm.com › composers › mascagniThe Story Behind Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana - Classic FM

    Mascagni (1863-1945), born in Livorno, Italy, composed two operas prior to Cavalleria Rusticana – Pinotta in 1880 and Guglielmo Ratcliff in 1885. After his dismissal from the Milan Conservatory in 1884 for his lack of application, he endured six years of poverty and obscurity touring as a conductor, then teaching and conducting in Cerignola ...

  10. www.britannica.com › topic › Cavalleria-rusticanaCavalleria rusticana | Mascagni Opera, Sicilian Drama

    Apr 19, 2024 · Cavalleria rusticana, opera in one act by the Italian composer Pietro Mascagni (Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci) that premiered in Rome on May 17, 1890. A short and intense work, it sets to music the Italian writer Giovanni Verga’s short story (1880) and play

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